NEWS

• INDUSTRY & SYMPOSIUM EVENTS
• Frontiers of Cellular Imaging Symposium
  Monday, May 11, 2009
  
• Industry Seminar, Life Technologies
  Monday, April 13 at 2:45
  Gunness Student Center (Marcus Hall)
  Featuring Dr. Steven Menchen, Life Technologies (formerly Applied Biosystems) “New technologies for high throughput DNA Sequencing”
• Pharma Careers Discussion Panel
  Thursday, April 9 at 2:15
  ISB 221
  Consisting of Tomi Sawyer, Adjunct UMass Chemistry Professor/Senior Vice-President, Drug Discovery & Innovative Technologies, Aileron Therapeutics; Pat Walters, Senior Research Fellow at Vertex Pharmaceuticals; Jeanne Hardy, UMass Chemistry Professor formerly with Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and Ray D'Alonzo, UMass Chemistry Professor retired from Procter & Gamble.
  
• Lila Gierasch elected to the Nominating Committee of the American Peptide Society (Sp/09)
• Gregory Tew received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support a global health research project exploring how synthetic AMOs interact with the immune system (5/09)
• Thai's research on three-part polymer featured in Chemistry World (5/09)
• Alejandro Heuck selected to be the 2009 Diseases of Infants and Children Scholar by the American Lung Association (5/09)
• Mike Maroney awarded a College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Outstanding Faculty Award in the area of research (5/09)
• Dan Hebert awarded a College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Outstanding Faculty Award in the area of research (5/09)
• Lila Gierasch and Rob Smock write "Sending Signals Dynamically" featured as the cover story in the April 10 issue of the journal Science (4/09)
• CBI Trainee Mariel Feliciano featured in UMass news article discussing the use and importance of both chemistry and biology for studying memory in the Chambers lab (4/09)
• Scott Garman receives University Distinguished Teaching Award, which "recognizes and honors individual excellence" in teaching across the university (4/09)
• Vince Rotello and Bappaditya Samanta's work, "Magnetic Nano-'shepherds' Organize Cells," featured in Science Daily (4/09)
• Craig Martin awarded a $45,000 special grant from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation to create a 'Molecular Playground' for ISB (3/09)
• "Amphiphilic nanoassemblies for the detection of peptides and proteins using fluorescence and mass spectrometry" by R. Vachet, Thai, M. Azagarsamy, A. Gomez-Escudero, and V. Yesilyurt, featured in RSC's Analyst (3/09)
• Thai lab's work, "Sensitive polymers show drug delivery promise", featured in Chemistry World, Royal Society of Chemistry (3/09)
• The most accessed paper of 2008 in Advanced Materials was “Applications of Nanoparticles in Biology,” by V. Rotello, M. De and P. Ghosh (2/09)
• Vince Rotello Appointed Associate Editor for North America for the Journal of Materials Chemistry (12/08)
• Lila Gierasch and Beena Krishnan featured in Chemistry and Biology for developing a way to slip a fluorescent marker into a cell’s molecular machines so it lights up when it has formed the proper shape to carry out the cell’s “work orders” (10/08)
• Chalk Talk Schedule for 2008-09
• CBI Newsletter, July 2008
• A warm welcome to the two newest CBI faculty members, Jim Chambers and Nate Schnarr
• CBI Newsletter, July 2007
• CBI Newsletter, June 2006